WP All Import – Import Add-On for ACF vs UpdraftPlus

The ACF Add-On for WP All Import makes it easy to bulk import data from any CSV or XML file into your ACF fields in WordPress in less than 10 minutes. The left side shows all of the ACF fields that you can import to and the right side displays the data from your XML/CSV file. Simply Drag & Drop the data from your XML or CSV into the ACF fields to import them. The importer is so intuitive that it is almost like manually adding custom post type data in the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. ACF CSV imports? ACF XML imports? They are EASY with WP All Import. Why you should use the ACF Add-On for WP All Import Supports files in any format and structure. There are no requirements for the data in your file to be organized in a certain way. CSV imports into Advanced Custom Fields is easy, no matter the structure of your file. Import all basic fields such as text, numbers, range, email address URL, and password. Support for all other ACF fields in the Pro version of the ACF add-on. Imports files of practically unlimited size by automatically splitting them into chunks. WP All Import is limited solely by your server settings. ACF WP All Import Pro Edition The ACF Add-On for WP All Import is fully compatible with the free version of WP All Import. However, the Pro version of WP All Import and the ACF add-on includes premium support and adds the following features: Support for every ACF Field – Import ACF data from CSV, Excel, or XML into Flexible Content, Relationships, Dates, Image Galleries, Google Maps, and more. Import ACF Repeater fields. Image and Gallery support – Easily import gallery images from your computer, another server, or anywhere else. Import files from a URL – Download and import files from external websites, even if they are password protected with HTTP authentication. Cron Job/Recurring Imports – WP All Import Pro can periodically check a file for updates, and add, edit, delete, and update any custom post type. Custom PHP Functions – Pass your data through custom functions by using [my_function({data[1]})] in your import template. WP All Import will pass the value of {data[1]} through my_function and use whatever it returns. Access to premium technical support. Upgrade to the Pro version of WP All Import now. You need the ACF add-on if you need to: Import hundreds and thousands of posts in a few minutes. You want to save your precious time and avoid doing manual data entry. ACF CSV Imports CSV is a common file format that’s editable by major spreadsheet software. It allows you to easily add and edit ACF data and change column names. When importing ACF data from CSV files, you should use UTF-8 encoding (which is very standard) if you are having any trouble with CSV imports containing special characters. But other than that, there are no special requirements. This add-on is the best option for ACF CSV import tasks – our importer is extremely flexible when doing ACF imports because you don’t need to edit your CSV files to import the data to Advanced Custom Fields. WP All Import can import ANY CSV file to ACF. You don’t need to layout your data in a specific way, and you don’t need your CSV to have specific column names. WP All Import’s drag & drop interface provides you with a visual way to map the columns in your CSV file to the appropriate fields in Advanced Custom Fields. Developers: Create Your Own Add-On This Add-On was created using the Rapid Add-On API for WP All Import. We’ve made it really easy to write your own Add-On. Don’t have time? We’ll help you find someone to write it for you. Read more about getting an Add-On made for your plugin or theme. Related Plugins Export any WordPress data to XML/CSV Import any XML or CSV File to WordPress Export Products to CSV/XML for WooCommerce Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce WP All Import Add-on Export Orders to CSV/XML for WooCommerce Export WordPress Users to CSV/XML Support You can submit the support form on our website or email us at [email protected]. While we try to assist users of our free version, please note that support is not guaranteed and will depend on our capacity. For premium support, purchase WP All Import Pro.

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. 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